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Hello
I am using rdesktop with an 8bpp X terminal. But
the last rdesktop version (patch 19-3) doesn't correctly handled 256
colours. (Which is not the case with rdesktop 1.0.0).
This problem is due to the palette management.
Rdesktop 1.0.0 uses a a 'private colourmap'. This is needed when a display
doesn't support numerous colours. And rdesktop 19-3 uses a shared
colourmap.
For example, netscape allows to use a private colourmap by
using the '-install' option.
I tried to fix the problem. So I picked from the original
rdestop code the ui_create_colourmap, ui_set_colourmap and ui_destroy colourmap
functions and I modified the rdesktop source code. (The most
important X function is XCreateColourmap). The result is not so bad. It works
when rdesktop is run through kde. But if rdesktop is run in full-screen mode or
run from the failsafe mode colours are totally broken.
I am definitively not a competent X programmer so I am not
able to provide a correct patch.
Does any body able to do that ?
I suggest to add a new rdesktop command line option to use or
not a private colour map (because in 16bpp, a private colour map is not needed).
In advance thank you
Vincent
because rdesktop doesn't use a 256-colour
display
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